Quilt photo follow-up

Warning - this post is rated PG - Please Giggle.

Fantastic fantastic suggestions. You are all a bunch of deviant alcoholics and I love you all. I had such a good laugh.

The bad news is that just as the comments poured in on that post, I got an email from the Louise at AP&Q saying not to worry so much about the photos AND THAT SHE WAS ABOUT TO READ MY BLOG! OH DEAR!!!!!

And then a second email from Louise saying she voted for the quilting in the bath photos and had been laughing like a hyena at your comments all morning. PHEW!!! What a relief!!!

Here are a few of the highlights for those who commented early and didn’t get to read the other ideas!

• Hanging upside down on Monkey bars
• Running around with it flying behind you as a cape
• Bury yourself in your fabric stash with just your head and toes peeking out!
• You could do like the princess and the pea and sit on a pile of quilts. (I like this idea and my father would say it was very apt)
• Dress in black, work on a quilting project for a few hours so that you are good and linty, tie a scrap around your hair and then take the picture. You would be like lady in add for rice crispy treats only a quilty version. (HA! Thanks Cindy!!! So funny!)
• up a tree (naked) (thanks Lucy, knew you’d come up with the goods. I just don’t think you are prepared to deal with the splinters and have you SEEN how frigging hard gumtrees are to climb? Do you not KNOW why koalas have those MASSIVE claws?).
• grab a loved one, wrap it around the pair of you and pretend you're running off after doing something naughty... (Thanks Katy. The only problem with this is that at the moment, my loved one is Patches and his idea of ‘something naughty’ is eating cat poo, which I’m not too keen on).

Danny gets extra points for deviance for suggesting a Jessica Simpson type Duke’s of Hazard videoclip scenario:

• Grab the highest heels you have, the shortest shorts and a bikini (it's summer out your way, right?). Use one of your quilts to "wash" your car with. That'll get the guys' attention! I have done this sans heels and quilt, with half the men in Perth off at the mines, sometimes a girl's gotta do... Or, you could go a different route... if memorable's all you're going for, take a picture of you quilting on the toilet!

Even I refuse to quilt on the toilet.

Megan from The Bitchy Stitcher (woohoo, celebrity comment, I did ask on Facebook though – check out Megan’s calendar if you haven’t seen it!) said...

• Okay, one idea would be you after a sewing bender. You're passed out at the machine, the sewing table is littered with quilts, fabrics, empty bottles of Jack (or a good Aussie equivalent), and your clothes are on inside out....Or get a trucker hat that says, "Rock Out With Your Block Out"

I am not sure when Megan dropped round and peered through the window but I *don’t* appreciate the state of my house and person being publicised. (But it was vodka not Jacks - get some glasses Megan!). But definitely check out her Quilter's Shirtless Man and Spicy Burrito Calendar.

Speaking of calendars, my friend Jason is a firefighter and is Mr July in next year’s WA Firefighter’s charity calendar. Here’s July 2012.

 Oops, no sorry, that's Megan's calendar. This is Jason's:

I thought, purely from an artistic perspective of course, that it would make a good photo if Jase brought the rest of the calendar round and all 12 climbed ladders (shirtless of course) to where I was sitting on the roof clutching a quilt with flames photoshopped in. Jason being a photo-slut (sorry Jase, you know it's true) did offer to bring his ladder round and help out. (I was kinda hoping for all 12 but that’s probably just being greedy, isn’t it?). Louise from AP&Q took it one step further and suggested instead that they hold the quilt out like a trampoline and I leap off the roof into it… (I think this means AP&Q doesn’t want another project from me.)

OK, winners… I was torn. Runner up definitely goes to Giles, who amongst other excellent creative suggestions, said “Aurifil to sponsor “perfect stitching” and wrap you in nothing but their thread”. I have not tried Aurifil – haven’t seen it in shops here yet – and really want to. If Giles had emailed Aurifil and talked them into it, I would totally have done it and given him the prize and sent him an autographed photo. He's blind so I don't mind doing that and his wife probably wouldn't either ;) (If Aurifil is reading this, there's still time).

But for creativity and sheer persistence, I have to award the winnings to Erin who says:

• “Of course, my original idea is the winner (quilted fig leaves) (is it wrong that I keep picturing it in my mind?) [YES IT IS AND I AM CANCELLING OUR SEWING DATE AND TELLING YOUR BOYFRIEND. Oh scratch that, he’d probably go for it. I know what boys are like]. Otherwise... to head down a non-nude path (boring!) how about you peeking over the top of a quilt... with just your eyes showing. No Photoshop needed! Uh huh. Genius. ;) Or... we could string a quilt up between a few trees and you can sit on it pretending it's a flying carpet. ;)

Flying carpets I like. I should point out that Erin lives in Perth too but we've never actually met. So we've got a blind sewing date over the Christmas break. I shall pick out some yucky fabrics then if she's nice I'll change them for lovely fabrics for her.

Erin also emailed me this picture as an alternative to a photo.

Of course, that's TOTALLY manageable by early next year. (I'm sure Julie could and would do it for me in about 5 minutes but the post from Japan is so unreliable).

Thanks so much for all the giggles! And congratulations Erin. Although of course, if Aurifil contacts me I'll be sending the prize to Giles. ;)